2-WAY TELEVISION IN PHONING TESTED; Persons at Ends of Line See Each Other Distinctly as They Talk. BOOTHS LIKE USUAL ONES Speaker Faces Screen Which Records Foot-Square Image for Transmission. GLARING LIGHT ELIMINATED And Most of Apparatus Is Hidden From View--Commercial Use Awaits Further Development. No Dazzling Light Used. Small Loud-Speaker Used.
Two-way television in which the speakers at both ends of a telephone line or a radio circuit see the image of each other as they talk was demonstrated yesterday by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company between 195 Broadway and the Bell Telephone laboratories at 463 West Street.
April 10, 1930
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